This crash occurred within two blocks of my sisters house. She said she heard it when it crashed.
It appears that it had a collision with a tower guy wire. That antenna tower isn't that tall, certainly less than 1,000 feet. What was that chopper pilot doing so low while still a considerable distance from his destination? Didn't he have an eye on his sectional that would have pointed out the location of the tower? The sectional would have pointed out the minimum altitude required to clear all obstacles for that area of the map.

Quoting Type-Rated (Reply 4):What was that chopper pilot doing so low while still a considerable distance from his destination? Didn't he have an eye on his sectional that would have pointed out the location of the tower

I've been wondering the same thing. The crash site would put the chopper a little over 20 miles from its departure point (in Sandwich, IL) and still 30+ miles from its destination in Chicago.

In the Beacon News article (the Aurora paper), it said the patient was initially to be transported to Central DuPage Hospital over in Winfield. The only thing that would've made sense to me is if they didn't find out they were heading to Chicago rather than Winfield until after they were already descending toward Winfield. They were still about 8.5 miles from that hospital as well, though.

What is really scary is that the Channel 13 news helicopter crash occurred a few short miles from my house and the Medivac crash happened a few short blocks from my sisters house!
Kind of scary, isn't it?